(adventures in abstraction and distraction)

Alternate post title: well, that made for an argumentative plane ride.

I have actually been hugely enjoying the infamous digressions, after setting aside a certain allowance for the rolling of eyes. One of the side benefits of reading La Brique electronically is that I feel blissfully at liberty to scribble mad quantities of notes and arguments in the margins. Well, the last couple of chapters I have stopped to comment on every paragraph, because these are the chapters where Hugo decides to go into great detail about how atheism destroys society.

For now I have to go be productive and stuff, so I leave you with two thoughts.

Dear Hugo,

Your "proof" of the existence of a divine essence is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the mathematical concept of infinity.

Very nettled love,-me.

"To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, with the infinity on high, is called praying." (Vol II, Bk 7, Ch V.)

Not so, sir! It’s called science.

(General book logging as well as a post on Waterloo: coming when things calm down a bit I swear no really)